Central High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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Well-known to all students in the English department, the library has many adequate facilities to serve Centralites who must prepare such class assignments as book reports, research papers, weekly written and oral compositions, and contest essays. g F QZQA4 ,X fiff Faye Laird Mayme D. Mayes Paul J. McCloud Jack Orme Miss Rae Blackburn shows how to run Linda McSpadden, and Susan Mackey. Julia M. Rackleff L 28 J i 1 V 'w..a zozf1fazvla4e' :ff, the pacer machine to Phil Sheridan,

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'7'4'i N After her first hour English class has lessons on the structure, use, and punctuation of the complex sentence, one of many constructions that sophomores study, Mrs. Louise Davidson tests the students to learn if they are ready for the next unit. ,AL Us nxt X15 Louise B. Davidson Paul E. Dykes Iona Ballew Freeman Bertie Goetschius Upon completing the reading of Shakespeare's 'Macbethf members of Mrs. Thelma Alexander's junior English class discuss how the prophecies of the witches came true. gg 0 A . I 9 u if Y ,Y A 5. , '4' .V A .wi . ' 2' Sallie Marvin Gruwell Ruth Holton i 27 J

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Gertrude Rector Erskine Stanberry Lorna Stenger Bernice Tomlinson Elective Courses in Language Arts Need Recommendation Besides the regular language arts classes re- quired of all students who expect to graduate, several elective courses Were available to those who could get the recommendations and who could find the time. Speech arts, either beginning or advanced, presented opportunity for practice in both dra- matics and debate. Out of the advanced classes came casts for the two speech arts plays and the chairmen for many of the assemblies. Designed to develop talent, creative writing was a first semester course in writing contest papers, original paragraphs, essays, short stor- ies, and poetry. For students interested in journalism the newspaper, School Life, and the yearbook, Tom Tom, afforded practical experience with prob- lems of publication. Paula Jean Whitson Evelyn R. Woods E291 Smiling as though the task is a pleasure, Miss Mayme Mayes checks out copies of a new grammar text, 'En- joying EngIish,' to her third hour junior English class.